 They close in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword-sway and with lance's thrust; And such a yell was there, Of sudden and portentous birth, As if men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air: Oh!  The castles and abbeys of England - Pàgina 66per William Beattie - 1844 - 10 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | John Edmund Reade - 1858 - 334 pàgines
...from memory), nor feel the 'trembling homage ' of the soldier, and the ' gaudia certaminis' of Attila? And such a yell was there Of sudden and portentous...men fought upon the earth And fiends in upper air; O, life and death were in that shout, Recoil — and rally — charge — and rout — And triumph... | |
 | Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 pàgines
...smoke and dust, Witn sword-sway, and with lance's thrustAnd such a yell was there, ' Of sudden nnd portentous birth, As if men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air. Long looked the anxious squires; their eye Could in the darkness nought descry. At length the freshening... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1859 - 432 pàgines
...sassaybes, and hartebeests, the thunder of whose hoofs, like the distant din of war, sounded in our ears As if men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air. A band of hungry harpies following in our track tripped nimbly up each victim as it fell — completing,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1898 - 872 pàgines
...at weapon point they close. They close in cloads of smoke and dust, With sword-sway and with lance's thrust ; And such a yell was there Of sudden and portentous...men fought upon the earth And fiends in upper air.' — SCOTT. INKERMANN is emphatically ' a soldier's battle.' The bayonet of the private counted for... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1860 - 656 pàgines
...weapon-point they close. ~ They close, in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword -sway, and with lance's thrust; And such a yell was there, Of sudden and portentous...men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air. Long looked the anxious squires; their eyo Could in the darkness nought descry. XXVfc At length the... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1861 - 580 pàgines
...weapon point they close. They close, in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword-sway, and with lance's thrust; And such a yell was there Of sudden and portentous...men fought upon the earth And fiends in upper air ; O life and death were in the shout, Recoil and rally, charge and rout, And triumph and despair. Long... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1862 - 578 pàgines
...weapon point they close. They close, in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword-sway, and with lance's thrust ; And such a yell was there Of sudden and portentous...men fought upon the earth And fiends in upper air ; O life and death were in the shout, Becoil and rally, charge and rout, And triumph and despair. Long... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1863 - 564 pàgines
...weapon point they close. They close, in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword-sway, and with lance's thrust; And such a yell was there Of sudden and portentous...men fought upon the earth And fiends in upper air ; 0 life and death were in the shout, Recoil and rally, charge and rout, And triumph and despair. Lona... | |
 | Playtime - 1863 - 436 pàgines
...weapon-point they close. — They close in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword sway, and with lance's thrust ; And such a yell was there, Of sudden and...men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air ; O life and death were in the shout, Recoil and rally, charge and rout, And triumph and despair. Long... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1863 - 530 pàgines
...they close. — They close, in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword-sway, and with lance's thrust; 25 And such a yell was there, Of sudden and portentous...men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air ; O life and death were in the shout, 80 Kecoil and rally, charge and rout, And triumph and despair.... | |
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